Pascal Jules

Pascal Jules (22 July 1961, in La Garenne-Colombes – 25 October 1987, in Bernay) was a French professional road bicycle racer.

Pascal Jules
Personal information
Full namePascal Jules
Born(1961-07-22)22 July 1961
La Garenne-Colombes, France
Died25 October 1987(1987-10-25) (aged 26)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1982Rauler
1983-1986Renault-Elf
1986Seat-Orbea
1987Caja Rural-Seat
Major wins
1 stage 1984 Tour de France

Career

Jules was a close friend of Laurent Fignon whom he rode with at Renault-Elf between 1982 and 1985. Jules won one stage in the 1984 Tour de France. With Fignon, Marc Madiot and Greg LeMond, Jules was part of a quartet in that Renault team who were keen to succeed the legendary Bernard Hinault. However, after being thrown back by injury and a fight with team director Cyrille Guimard, he joined Marino Lejarreta's Seat-Orbea team.

Death

He died in 1987 following a car crash in Normandy, after returning from a football match for a charitable association.

In his autobiography entitled Nous étions jeunes et insouciants ("We were young and carefree") Laurent Fignon remembers Pascal Jules by saying: “It was unsaid but there was a pact of kinship between us which was so strong, so inviolable, almost sacred, that it would last as long as life lasted. But some lives don't last that long.”

Personal life

Jules was the father of Justin Jules, who became a professional cyclist himself.[1]

Career achievements

Major results
1982
Fontenay-sous-Bois
1983
Quilan
Tour de Picardie
Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe
1984
Tour de France:
Winner stage 8
Chateau-Chinon
1985
Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe

Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987
Giro d'Italia — — — — 85
Tour de France 61 21 — DNF 114
Vuelta a España — — — 77 —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
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See also
  • Fignon, Laurent (2010). We Were Young and Carefree. Fotheringham, William (trans.). Random House. ISBN 0-224-08319-8.

References
  1. Het maatje van Laurent Fignon Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine - Sportgeschiedenis (in Dutch)


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